I just play ball

Chapter 32 Go All Out for LeBron

"No, I don't know how to defend for now." Li Yue shook his head slightly and answered truthfully.

In the past three games, he played against Paul George, Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony in a row. The three are famous for their strength and belong to the representative small forwards in the league. 20 Such excellent data can help the Lakers win the game, which can be described as a complete victory.

While waiting for his teammates to board the car, he saw a lot of compliments on Twitter, such as the rise of super giants, excellent offense and defense, and miracles, and other praises poured out like waves, but some people believed that he benefited from the Lakers' offensive and defensive system. Scores and assists come from the sacrifices of Kobe and Nash. Meeting LeBron James and the defending champion Heat will definitely expose the true level.

I have heard this argument too many times, but LeBron is the league's number one small forward, and it is really hard to refute.

Only one game can silence those who doubt, but it is also possible to "sit solidly" the player evaluation of the system.

In order to find a chance to win, he specifically searched and read recent articles analyzing LeBron, trying to find an excellent strategy to defend LeBron, but as he read more, he felt that LeBron's strength was terrifying and it was very difficult to target.

After the Heat finished playing the Nets last night, LeBron became the only NBA player after Adrian Dantley and Moses Malone to score more than 30 points and shoot 60% in five consecutive games. He averaged only 17.8 shots per game. Extraordinarily high.What's even more terrifying is that so far this season, LeBron's three-point shooting percentage is as high as 40.6%.

The key point is that the Heat are currently in a five-game winning streak, and the team's shooting percentage is extremely high, even if they double-team, they are looking for death.

"It's not that scary. Let's study the video of the game together later. This time I must beat LeBron, and the Lakers must win the Heat!" Kobe said seriously, his eyes showed determination, as if he had been looking forward to this game for a long time
Li Yue nodded and did not answer. Since the beginning of the 10-11 season, the Lakers have lost to the Heat in six consecutive games. The main reason is that LeBron joined the Heat. The Lakers failed to complete reinforcements. The gap between the two teams is getting bigger and bigger. .

Kobe is so proud, how can he endure losing seven games in a row?
Of course, the team's need to make the playoffs is also an important reason. There are only a dozen games left in the whole season, and each game is critical.

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After a five-hour flight, the Lakers team landed in Miami.

After getting out of the airport and taking the bus, it took another half an hour to arrive at the hotel, and it was already six in the morning.

All Li Yue’s luggage is a suitcase and a backpack, but the team arranged an exclusive luxury suite for him, with the same treatment as Kobe and D’Antoni, as a reward for his outstanding performance against the Knicks.

Sleeping soundly until eleven o'clock in the morning, Li Yue got up to wash up, took the 200 dollars subsidized by the team and went to the hotel restaurant. When he walked to the elevator, he happened to meet Thackeray and the others, all of them looked listless, as if they had just finished doing something thing.

Li Yue didn't know why and couldn't ask more questions. While thinking about how to defend LeBron, he ate lunch with a few people.

He went back to his room, watched ESPN sports news for a while, and there was a knock on the door.

Kobe came with a notebook, and the coaching staff headed by D'Antoni walked with him.Everyone sat scattered around the sofa, studied LeBron's recent game video one by one, and expressed their personal opinions at any time, which was equivalent to holding a pre-game video analysis meeting.

After watching all of them, the smiling faces disappeared from everyone's expressions, replaced by irritability and depression.

LeBron's state is too explosive, and there is a trend of two consecutive MVPs.

Everyone discussed for a long time, and finally decided on a defensive plan based on Li Yue's proposal: defend LeBron on the outside alone, block the inside depending on the situation, and mainly defend other players. It is better for LeBron to score 40 points easily than for LeBron to score. 25+ triple-doubles.

In terms of offense, the main focus is on the inside. Taking advantage of the fact that the Heat's Chris Anderson has not yet returned, let Howard do as much damage as possible, and strive to greatly reduce Haslem's playing time, so that the Lakers can grab more rebounds.

Such a decision was also due to helplessness, because the Heat's offensive and defensive transitions were too fast, and they often grabbed rebounds to connect with James Way. A team with too many veterans like the Lakers couldn't keep up with the rhythm at all.

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At three o'clock in the afternoon, the whole team boarded the bus and went to the American Airlines Arena.

Although playing back-to-back battles was very exhausting, Li Yue still insisted on shooting and deadlifting, which lasted for nearly 10 minutes.

After everything was done, Li Yue sat on the sidelines to rest, took out his mobile phone to check Twitter, and searched for his name as usual.

Unsurprisingly, a swarm of mocking tweets popped up like locusts.

"Do you still remember how Linsanity was terminated back then? At that time, the Heat team worked together to limit Jeremy Lin. He made 11 of 1 shots and only scored 8 points in total including free throws. He only had 3 assists that he was proud of. There were 8 turnovers. Tonight, the Heat will use the same method to end Li Crazy, and look forward to a good show!"

"Li Yue's position on the court is nominally a small forward, but in fact he plays as a point guard. Like Jeremy Lin, he benefits from D'Antoni's tactical system. Once he loses the system bonus, he is at most a substitute player."

"In fact, even with the system bonus, Li Yue is as difficult to perform as he encountered LeBron, but if he performed well tonight, it must be that LeBron wants to give young players like him more opportunities. The final statistic is predicted to be 10. +6."

After reading several articles in a row, Li Yue couldn't help laughing out loud.

Heizi will always be invincible. If he plays well, LeBron is merciful. If he plays badly, he is not strong enough. Heizi couldn’t win the championship without O’Neal, but after winning the championship, Gasol beat Duncan and Gasol Nate's formula is exactly the same.

Putting down his mobile phone, Li Yue entered the court again and began to warm up for shooting.

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The time soon came to 05:30, the arena staff notified the Heat to arrive, and the Lakers returned to the locker room together.

Li Yue sat on the chair and was about to untie his shoelaces, when he saw TNT, the TV station responsible for the live broadcast of the game, broadcast a pre-game interview video with LeBron, the content happened to be talking about the matchup between the two.

"Have you noticed Li Yue's crazy performance recently? He scored 20+10 in two consecutive games, including a triple-double."

"Of course! He is a very inspirational player. Before the draft, he came to the Heat for a trial training. I watched it from a distance and was very impressed. But at that time we lacked a point guard."

"You said on Twitter before that he plays very similar to you, why did you say that?"

"He's an all-around player like me, we can score, rebound, organize, defend, which is not common in the league, so I'm very impressed with him, that's why I tweeted so early Congratulations."

"Someone on Twitter said that Li Yue is just a system player, once he leaves D'Antoni..."

"BULLSHIT! Saying that is not only unfair to him, but also an insult to me, because I will use 100% of my strength to face him tonight, and then you will know how good he is!"

After the three questions, the interview ended, and Li Yue looked away from the TV, feeling both excited and nervous.

If a small character like him wants to defeat a big monster like LeBron, he usually relies on the opponent to underestimate the enemy, but now LeBron has said that he must deal with it with all his strength, and the difficulty has increased exponentially. It can be called the strongest challenge in his NBA career.

(End of this chapter)